RSSMotherhood’s Real Gifts
July 23, 2010
Talk truthfully to other women…and they will talk truthfully to you…and they will be your salvation. Just knowing you’re normal helps.
Read moreBest Things This Week June 8, 2010
June 14, 2010
A TV show about 2 gleefully gay Scottish designers. Shopping is my favorite activity, but shopping with gay men with good taste and singsong Scottish accents just takes it to new heights.They almost require you to sit down with a glass of champagne just to watch the show.
Read moreA Magazine, A Mascara, and Good Hair Goop
May 1, 2010
I allow planned days off from school gladly. Friends are amazed that I am teaching them to hide from their problems and be lazy. I don’t want them to live in a world of time clocks, me vs. The Boss, of their achievement schedule being decided by someone other than them. If their work is done at the end of the week, let them be innovative and self-determined about where and how. If they can achieve in their sleep, or on an island, they’ve won.
Read moreGifts from Real People 2
November 28, 2009
Ours in not a family that can give $250 watches as gifts, though the magazines tell us that we’re supposed to give them and expect to receive them.
For those of us, which includes most of us, who shop at our local malls and box stores, how about these?
Insanely Healthy Pumpkin Bread
November 5, 2009
Yellow vegetables take a little more work to figure into every day. My favorite thing is this bread.
Love it with soup. Love it with honey.
Love it with ED Smith More Fruit Cherry Blueberry Jam, which I can no longer buy because I have a little problem with it.
The True Winter Child
October 27, 2009
When people learn about the relationship between body colouring and character, many feel uncomfortable. They wonder if this line of thought qualifies as racist. Regardless of how much truth it may contain, the purpose is not to show that any type is superior or inferior to any other. Everybody is needed and welcome.
Read moreSpeak Your Limits
August 29, 2009
We know what we don’t want. We don’t want our husbands to do this. We don’t want our kids to do this. Knowing all that isn’t really moving us forward or covering new ground. What we need to be asking is what we DO want. Then we have to say it out loud. Not inside our own heads and hoping others will hear.
Read moreFitness Magazine July/August 2009: A Keeper
August 6, 2009
The best thing about this magazine is that it feels like it’s for the real world. It doesn’t harp on the weight loss, I-got-to-a-size-6, thing as much as the health and strength benefits. This is not an anatomy lesson or a journey beyond your outer limits. It is intended to be practical and motivating.
Read moreSome True Spring Children
July 23, 2009
Pure season kids are the real deal. They haven’t yet learned to temper some of their pure characteristics.
These are the party children. Playful, silly, unpredictable. Would shoot Grandma with the water cannon. As 2 year olds, it takes a lot of extended family to keep them alive.
The True Summer Child
July 2, 2009
You don’t expect a whirling dervish to come out of someone who looks like Mrs. Claus. Anne of Green Gables … less of a reach. Cruella DeVil … still less. We instinctively expect a personality and a coloring to be associated because it so often works that way.
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